[PRE REVIEW]: OneWorld: python mapping made easy

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@toni-am<!--end-author-handle-- (Antoni Aguilar-Mogas) Repository: https://bitbucket.org/taguilar/oneworld Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: 1.0.7 Editor: Pending Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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- 10.2105/ajph.94.10.1695 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.03021 is OK
- 10.25080/Majora-92bf1922-00a is OK

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- 10.1109/mcse.2007.55 may be a valid DOI for title: Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

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[arfon]

Pausing this until we have a GitHub handle for the author to interact with here.

[toni-am]

Thank you for comments. I am the author of the submitted paper and this is my github user.

[arfon]

Thanks for the ping @toni-am. As this submission is on the smaller side of what we typically publish in JOSS I'm going to start a scope review and seek the opinion of the wider editorial team. This will likely take a couple of weeks to complete.

[arfon]

@editorialbot query scope

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Submission flagged for editorial review.

[toni-am]

Dear @arfon thank you very much for considering the paper for publication. Regarding the size of the software, in defense of the module and hoping that it will help with the discussion process, I would like to point out that the module is 1.5K lines of code long, above the threshold cutoff stated in the JOSS submission guide. For reference, from the last 5 papers published in JOSS regarding python modules, three of them are longer (pydgn with 5.4K LOC, ggce with 2.2K LOC and exorad with 4.9K LOC), while two of them are shorter (blackbirds and pyswarming with 1.0K LOC and 0.5K LOC respectively).

[toni-am]

I would also like to mention here that the software has been and is currently being used in a series of reports for the USDA ( reference Golden 2019 in the paper), as well as in ongoing research regarding health disparities (with one paper submitted to Patient Experience Journal).

[toni-am]

I am sorry if this is not the right venue to communicate. I am looking forward to any kind of feedback that will help me improve the software. Thanks again for your consideration.

[oliviaguest]

@toni-am it is the right place, I just was away for a week. :blush:

[toni-am]

Hi @oliviaguest , no worries! I do this extra hours so it usually takes me a couple of days to respond (I apologize in advance). No rush! Please let me know how I can help. Thank you!

[oliviaguest]

@toni-am the mapping functionality provided is a plotting-based utility and while for sure useful, we do not publish this kind of work at JOSS. I am really sorry to bring you this bad news and hope you consider JOSS for the future.

[oliviaguest]

@editorialbot reject

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Paper rejected.

[toni-am]

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I am surprised to see that the reason for rejecting my paper is that "JOSS does not publish plotting-based utilities", since the publication of plotting-based utilities in JOSS (e.g. Seaborn) is why I decided to submit my work to JOSS in the first place.

I feel like if this "no plotting-based utilities" policy was stated clearly in the submission instructions it would have saved us all our time and effort.

Thank you for your feedback and your suggestions. Kind regards.